Re: UML state diagrams

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Andrzej Wasowski wrote:
> > Subject: Re: UML state diagrams
> > From: "Alejandro Aguilar Sierra" <asierra servidor unam mx>
> > Which version of dia are you using? In 0.91-pre, there are 5 separated
> > icons for state machines: initial/final, state, activity, branch and
> > fork/union.
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> This is a good news indeed. You are right that I wasn looking at dia
> 0.90 - this is what made its way into vanilla RedHat. It's a  bit pain
> in the neck to look at current CVS, because of this nice spaghetti
> affect when you start to upgrade packages (someone has just mentioned
> it here).

I'm sorry to be causing update trauma, but the font situation was just
getting ridiculous in the old version.

> As this (the bleeding edge problem) seems to be an issue, perhaps
> someone could try to set up a rudimentary how-to on what should be
> upgraded and what are you about to loose in your system when you do
> the upgrade? If someone who went through the process could put up
> together several points and post it somewhere? I would be grateful. I
> volunteer to drop in my experience once I get to tackling this.

The FAQ lists the packages necessary for Dia 0.91 (though not
transitively).  In a properly packaged distribution, you shouldn't lose
anything, as Gtk1.2 and Gtk2 can coexist.  But that's not always the case,
of course.

-Lars

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